New to Mac

I'm a pharmacy student and am looking to buy a Mac. I've used PCs all my life and am very good with them, but want to buy a Mac. Can any one lead me into the right direction on whitch one to buy. I'm not a heavy gamer and will be using it mainly for school work.

I would like to purchase a new Mac with tiger, i like the features on what i have read, i would like a notebook but i would also like to be able to dock it to a desktop and use a external monitor and keyboard.

I would like to purchase a new Mac with tiger, i like the features on what i have read, i would like a notebook but i would also like to be able to dock it to a desktop and use a external monitor and keyboard.

i would go with a Macbook with 2.2 or 2.4 GHz configuration, i suppose you can get an education discount from Apple, and you can connect and external screen to a Macbook. the 'book is also very portable and small, but the screen should be large enough to work efficiently on. and you can always upgrade from 2GB RAM to 4GB in the Macbook, which will give you a significant performance increase.